It's Time for House GOP to Walk the Walk

Today is Equal Pay Day – a day that symbolizes when, more than three months into the year, women’s wages finally catch up to what men were paid in the previous year. Women on average earn just 77 cents for every dollar earned by men.

Where do House Republicans stand on Equal Pay for America’s working women? Well, if you were just tuning in today to the issue you might think the GOP were strong supporters… but you would be wrong.

This morning, House Republican Leaders, led by Majority Leader Cantor, held a press conference in which they repeatedly asserted that the GOP supports equal pay for equal work. What followed was a series of tweets from House GOP members making the same claim, for example: